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Homelessness, poverty and food insecurity are endemic at MATC
Professional success is the inevitable result of hard work and talent according to anyone who still believes in the American dream. However, regardless of one’s merit, the door to success is often closed to those who lack financial stability in the first place. Just a month ago, the Government Accountability Office released a s... Read More

Kevin Carey | OCT. 31, 2017
A college degree is the key to unlocking many of the best careers in the modern labor market. But more than 20 million working-age adults in the United States are college dropouts, failed in some way by institutions that collectively receive hundreds of billions of dollars in public funding every year.
For the last few decades, the Department of Education has trac... Read More

By ERICA L. GREEN | NOV. 15, 2017
WASHINGTON — The moment the last of Fred Vautour’s five children walked across the stage as a Boston College graduate was priceless.
Not only did Mr. Vautour have the rare distinction of handing each of his children their diplomas, but he was also able to pay for their nearly 18 years of schooling by collecting trash, scrubbing toilets and mopping floors while t... Read More

By thegrio | November 11, 2017
A hunger strike at Morehouse College and Spelman College has ended after the two historically black colleges announced that they would make changes to help students who did not have access to food.
On Tuesday, Mary Pat Hector, of Spelman, took to Twitter to announce that the hunger strike, which started on November 2, was over.
“What came from that meeting w... Read More

September 6, 2017
The American Federation of Teachers Local 212 at Milwaukee Area Technical College responded to President Trump’s decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protects from deportation more than 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
Dr. Lisa Conley, Local 212 president and Life Scienc... Read More

By Jordan Weissmann
A lot of people who went to grad school, or who are at least thinking about it, are going to be extremely unhappy if not outright panicked when the Trump administration releases its first detailed budget next week.
As part of its plan to slash the Department of Education's budget by some $10.6 billion, the Washington Post reports that the White House will propose ending... Read More

I would change nothing. I began at my university to learn, and I now depart it to serve.
By Tyler Durrant | MAY 16, 2017
We were the Bethune-Cookman class of 2017, and we would not allow our legacy to be exploited for political gain.
We were the Bethune-Cookman class of 2017, and we would not allow our legacy to be exploited for political gain.
It had been our graduation. We were t... Read More

Free college is a lovely, sensible notion — but countries seem capable of embracing it only when enough of their top earners pay 50 percent or more of their income in taxes. In the United States, New York is the sole state to have taken the step of offering to cover tuition at all its public colleges and universities. And even this new benefit, the Excelsior Scholarship, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuo... Read More

By Valerie Strauss | December 15, 2016
Teachers have it easy, right? They get summers off, go home in the middle of the afternoon when students leave campus and are paid well. Actually, for most teachers, those are all myths, especially the last one.
Many teachers are paid so poorly, in fact, that they have to take second jobs to pay their bills. A study released earlier this year found ... Read More